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Application led August 23, 1923. Serial No. 658,959.

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Be itknown that I, Lewis G. MYERS, a citizen O'f the United States, residingk at Freeport, in the county of Nassau and- State of- New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typewriting Machines, yof which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to typewriting vmachines in `which the Vtypewriter carriage is-Jmade to run lon balls or roller bearings in orderto reduce frictionand to provide for thev easy movement off the carriage back and forth across the ma chine.- This 'isl a desirablel feature of the Royal standard machine .Y

Ifn that machine, the carriage 'rail and;

shift rail are grooved toV receive balls of hardened steel and these Yrails areprovided-` with teeth, engaged-by circular pinionsor ball gears which travel back` and forth with theaballsf in the grooves. chine theballs haveVv been ymade' toengage directly with the walls `of the grooves in the rails, and in order to avoid und-ue wear therails'have beenmaoleof relatively hard material.I As the rails are comparatively largetheexpense of theirfmanufacture has been considerable.

In the pending application for patent ofi' Bernard J. Dowd, filed Aug. 29, i923, No. 660,008, a construction is` shown in which the lcarriagel rail and the shift'rail are providedwith insertso'f relatively hard'mai terialwithfwhich the .ballsor-rollers engage,

thus making it possible toemploy-railsmade of relatively sof-tandl less expensive ina* According n i f usingl a single groovedinsert'fin. each rail I employ a, plurality offinserts and mount them in the rails in anovel way, the inserts preferably being madel of commercial'form of round bar steel of proper size;

Another part of my invention relates to the-,marginal alining scalescominon' to all Royal machines and to the dust sheds now employed-in such.y machines. Inthe- Royal V.stand-ardmachine aseparate alining scale f or gage is attached to vthe platen carriage near each end thereofg and each scale is separately appliedandv adjusted. Accord;y ing to my inventionthe two scalesare con; nected with each other and may be simultaneously applied' tov and simultaneously` re-` In the Royal ma-v to my inventionyinstead Aof,

moved from the carriage. Preferably the scales are attached to a platefextending from end to end of the carriage which serves as adust shed or guard Vforthe ball bearing of the carriage. In the Royal machine the dust sheds, which partially cover the type bars are provided with scales over which move pointers or indexiingers attached Vto the carriage. According to my invention thesepointers or index lingers are formed integrally with the plate which connectsfthe alining scales and serves to protect the ball bearings. v Y Y In the accompanying drawingf- Figure 1 is a vertical section'of a portion of a typewriting machine with Ymy improvements applied. Y

Figure 2 illustrates the first koperation ofv forming a groovev in,a rail'toreceive an insert'. Y

Figure 3 indicates the second operation in which the angular groove, shown in Figure 2,-is enlarged to give circular form thereto to correspond with the circular form of the bar which `serves as a bearing insert for the rail.

Figure 4 indicateshow the insert or wearing bar` is mounted in the rail.

Figure 5 indicates4 howthe alining scales are .connected with a dustI guard for ithe carriage bearings and how this dust guard kis formed with fingers -which cooperatewith the scales on thetype bar dust sheds. Y

FigureV G is an end View of the parts shown in Figure 5.

Y Figure 7 is afragme'ntary view illustrat-` ingyhowa pointer. carried by the carriage dust shed cooperates with ascale on one-of4` the vtype Ybar dust sheds'.4

Arile Carriage rau A esegui@ Shia an B maybe made of relatively softr material;

that is, such rails maybe lmade of softer'- ing to my invention each rail is provided yhardest obtainable material, such as hardened steel, which are driven endwise into the grooves so as to be firmly secured therein, or the rails may be heated to cause eX- pansion before the inserts are applied and allowed to cool after the inserts are in proper position. The bars Z 'may be ground at e to present bearing surfaces for the balls C. It will be observed that the bars Z are held against sidewise movement by the overlapping lips b of the rails. The balls are properly mounted between the rails in the manner shown in Figure l, being carried by pinions I) which mesh with teeth a formed on the rails. It will be observed that each rail is equipped with a plurality 0f inserts and that each insert is made of a vcommercial form of bar steel. In this way the cost'of manufacture is largely reduced.

In order to protect the bearings from dust and erasures, I employ a dust shed or plate E preferably made of sheet metal, which is attached tothe carriage rail by screws F which extend through enlarged openings f in the plate so that the position of the plate may be properly adjusted. The Royal machine is equipped with marginal alining scalessimilarto those shown in Figure 5, but heretofore these scales have been separately applied to the machine. According to my invention the kdust shedl E is formed with flanges e to which th-e scales G are connected. The scales are pivotally connected, as indicated, t0 the flanges and are pressed towards the platen byv springs II in the usual way. In this way the dust shed and the alining scales'are made a single unit and may be together applied yto or removed fromthe machine. The cost of manufacture an-d time in applying these devices to the carriage is thus considerably reduced.

I also add to this unit pointers K which cooperate with scales on the type bar dust sheds L. These pointers may be formed integrally with the plate E. In this way I combine in a single unit or element a dust shed, marginal alining scales and scale pointers which may be constructed in a very economical way and may be quickly applied to or removed from the machine.

I claim as my` invention: f

1. A bearing for a typewriting machine comprising balls or rollers and rails between which the balls are mounted each provided with a plurality of wearing members with which the rails engage.

2. A bearing for a typewriter machine comprising balls or rollers and rails between which the balls are mounted each provided with a plurality of wearing members having wearing surfaces with which the balls engage.

3. A bearing for a typewriter machine comprising balls or rollers and grooved rails between which the balls are mounted each provided vwith a plurality of wearing meinbers arranged in the grooves with which the balls engage.

4L. In a typewriter carriage a shift rail formed with a plurality of longitudinal grooves and provided with inserted wearing members which are locked in the grooves of the rail. Y v

' 5. In a typewriting machine a carriage rail formed with a plurality of longitudinal grooves and provided with inserted wearing members which are locked in the grooves of the rail.

6'; A bearing for a ytypewritercarriage comprising balls or rollers and rails between which the balls are mounted each provided with a plurality of wearing members having wearing faces which engage the balls.

7.A bearing fora typewriter machine comprising balls or rollers and rails between which the balls are mounted provided with inserted bar steel wearing membersv of commercial shape with which the balls engage. Y

8. In a typewriting machine, bearing rails for the carriage each formed with a plurality of longitudinal grooves containing inserts of relatively hardinaterial engaging balls or rollers mounted between the rai s.

9. A typewriting machine equipped with rails of relatively `soft material each reinforced or strengthened by ra plurality ofl wearing members which are locked inv grooves in the rails. 10. In a typewriting machine, the combi nation with the carriage rail and the shift rail of ball bearings interposed between the rails, a'dust shed or plate for protecting the bearings and which is attached to the carriage rail, and marginal alining scales mounted on and connected with each other by saiddust shed. v

11. The combination with the carriage rail and the shift rail of a typewritingfmachine Yof a type bar dust shed, ball bearings interposed between the carriage rail and the shift rail, a dust shed or plate for the ball bearings, and pointers or index fingers cooperating Vwith the type bar dust sheds and which are carried by the dust shed of the ball bearings.

12. In a typewriting machine, a unit which is as a whole attached to or removed llO from the machine, comprising a dust shed, two alining scales and two pointers, the alining scales and pointers being permanently connected to saiddust shed.

- 13. In a typewriting machine7 a unit or element which as a whole may be applied to or removed from the machine and Which cooperates with the typewriter carriage having ball hea-ringey interposed between the shift rail and the carriage rail and with type bar dust sheds having scales thereon,

` comprising a dust shed for the bali bearings which carries alining scales at opposite ends and pointers which cooperate with the scales on the type bar dust sheds.

In testimonyV whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name.

f LEWIS C. MYERS. 

